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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:45 pm
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Yeah, quotes are cool. Here are some that I found, feel free to share yours -
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
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6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi
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7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
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8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
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9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
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10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
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11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
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12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho
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13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
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great
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14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
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great
Let's try to limit the posts in this thread to quotes or the discussion of quotes.
Thanks!
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TOYNBEE IDEA
IN MOViE `2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER.
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16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
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17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author
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18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
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19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
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20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
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"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am"
~ Muhammed Ali
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21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot
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23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
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Not originally from them but commonly accepted:
Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Churchill's retort: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
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24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective
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26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby
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27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan
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28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand
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29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin
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30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis
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31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky
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32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams
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33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon
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34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow
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35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower
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36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly
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36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly
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37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett
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38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
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Now
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39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo
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40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen
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Well that's enough wisdom and humor for one day. Look forward to seeing other insightful quotes!
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He who stands on toilet is high on pot
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Marriage is a lifelong battle...except we men aren't given any weapons. - scrubs, yesterday. (sounded funnier when he said it)
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true
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
— Sigmund Freud
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Insert pretty much anything said in Fear and Loathing ---->" "
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Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
-Mitch Hedberg
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"How fortunate for our governments that the people they administer don't think"
Adolf Hitler.
It's true for the big majority of people